Person's Achievement Motive
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A Person's Achievement Motive is a secondary personal motive that drives excellence pursuit through both achievement needs and failure avoidance for performance mastery.
- AKA: Achievement Drive, Success Motivation, Performance Motive, Need for Achievement.
- Context:
- It can typically direct Person's Effort through goal pursuit and feedback response.
- It can typically enhance Person's Performance through competency development and calculated risk-taking.
- It can typically shape Person's Standard through excellence pursuit and challenge selection.
- It can typically strengthen Person's Persistence through challenge engagement and gratification delay.
- It can typically guide Person's Focus through priority alignment and concrete feedback.
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- It can often improve Person's Skill through deliberate practice and performance measurement.
- It can often increase Person's Competence through systematic learning and constructive criticism.
- It can often develop Person's Capability through continuous improvement and problem-solving.
- It can often expand Person's Knowledge through active exploration and skill mastery.
- It can often boost Person's Confidence through success experience and failure management.
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- It can range from being a Person's Implicit Achievement Motive to being a Person's Explicit Achievement Motive, depending on its cognitive processing.
- It can range from being a Person's Individual Achievement Motive to being a Person's Collective Achievement Motive, depending on its scope orientation.
- It can range from being a Person's Task Achievement Motive to being a Person's Domain Achievement Motive, depending on its focus breadth.
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- It can integrate with Person's Growth Mindset for development acceleration.
- It can connect with Person's Self-Efficacy for confidence building.
- It can align with Person's Goal System for achievement direction.
- It can work with Person's Feedback Process for performance improvement.
- It can balance with Person's Power Motive and Person's Affiliation Motive for holistic motivation.
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- Examples:
- Person's Performance Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Skill Mastery Motives, such as:
- Person's Competitive Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Workplace Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Professional Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Career Development Motives, such as:
- Person's Development Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Impact Achievement Motives, such as:
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- Person's Performance Achievement Motives, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Person's Comfort Motives, which seek stability maintenance rather than achievement pursuit.
- Person's Social Affiliation Motives, which focus on relationship building rather than performance improvement.
- Person's Security Motives, which prioritize safety assurance over achievement striving.
- Person's Avoidance Motives, which aim to prevent failure rather than achieve success.
- Person's Power Motives, which emphasize control desire over excellence pursuit.
- See: Achievement Motivation, Goal Setting, Performance Drive, Success Orientation, Mastery Pursuit, Competence Development, Excellence Standard, McClelland Achievement Theory.
References
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2025-01-02
- Perplexity.ai
- Question: What is achievement motivation? Explain its key characteristics, psychological framework, and workplace impact. Include information about McClelland's Theory and how it relates to other motivational needs.
- Answer: Achievement motivation is a fundamental drive that pushes individuals to master challenges and reach high standards of excellence. It represents a person's desire for significant accomplishment, mastery of skills, and the pursuit of challenging but attainable goals.
- Key Characteristics:
- Personality Traits:
- Persistence in working toward goals.
- Ability to delay gratification.
- Competitiveness in chosen pursuits.
- Behavioral Patterns:
- Seek moderately difficult tasks.
- Desire concrete feedback on their performance.
- Take calculated risks.
- Work diligently toward specific goals.
- Personality Traits:
- Psychological Framework:
- Dual Nature of Achievement Motivation:
- Need for achievement: drives individuals to experience pride upon success.
- Fear of failure: creates tendency to experience shame upon failure.
- Brain Activity:
- Implicit motivation activates areas associated with emotion and visual processing.
- Explicit motivation engages regions linked to cognitive self-control and verbal goal processing.
- Dual Nature of Achievement Motivation:
- Workplace Impact:
- Professional Characteristics:
- Thrive on feedback and constructive criticism.
- Set challenging but realistic goals.
- Focus on personal improvement.
- Prefer roles where success can be measured.
- Demonstrate high problem-solving capabilities.
- Professional Characteristics:
- McClelland's Theory:
- Achievement motivation exists alongside two other primary motivational needs:
- Power: the desire for influence and control.
- Affiliation: the need for relationships and belonging.
- Achievement motivation exists alongside two other primary motivational needs:
- Key Characteristics:
- Citations:
[1] https://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/motivation/section4/ [2] https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/achievement-motivation [3] https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/personality/achievement-motivation/ [4] https://study.com/academy/lesson/achievement-motivation-theory-definition-quiz.html [5] https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/achievement-motivation [6] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9286520/ [7] https://www.lifehack.org/909492/achievement-motivation [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_achievement [9] https://www.businessballs.com/improving-workplace-performance/david-mcclelland-achievement-motivation/ [10] https://dictionary.apa.org/achievement-motivation